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- GLC#
- GLC01173
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- December 20, 1836
- Author/Creator
- Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
- Title
- Republic of Texas land scrip for 320 acres [land grant]
- Place Written
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 40 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Partly printed document on paper, numbered 95, for 320 acres, to Thomas Toby, a land agent. Countersigned by Secretary of Treasury Terry Smith. Houston, as noted in the printed document, has affixed his personal seal. With two dockets on verso by former owners: one 1837/04/18 New Orleans (illegible signature) assigning the scrip to Samuel Hewes and one 1837/04/23 New Orleans by Hewes assigning it to Edward Hay [?].
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